In his latest piece, San Diego Union-Tribune health writer Scott Lafee offered up some numbers for smokers to consider if they are thinking about quitting. The numbers are courtesy of the American Lung Association. Some of them include:

20 — Minutes after your last cigarette, when your blood pressure and pulse rate drop to normal and your hands and feet warm up.
8 — Hours after your last cigarette, when carbon monoxide levels in blood drop to normal and oxygen levels increase.
2-3 — Weeks to months afterward, when your general blood circulation improves; lung function increases up to 30 percent.

To those I’ll add these:

1 — “Totally boss” person smoking in this room full of squares. Believe that Daddy-O!

0 – Percent chance that Hollywood badass Johnny Depp will walk up to you outside the Viper Room and ask to bum a cigarette, if you are NOT smoking.

I’m just kidding, kids. Don’t smoke. It’s terrible for you. It makes your clothes reek, turns your fingernails yellow, and girls won’t kiss you. And if that’s not enough motivation, here’s one more number:

159,390 — estimated number of people who will die of lung cancer this year in America.